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| counterfeit-monkey | warzone2100 | |
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| 2 | 122 | |
| 157 | 3,030 | |
| 2.5% | 2.0% | |
| 8.6 | 9.9 | |
| 4 months ago | 4 days ago | |
| Inform 7 | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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counterfeit-monkey
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Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases
If you don't want to install a parser on your computer, you can play it online by putting the link to the .gblorb file into https://iplayif.com/ I.e. https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fi7%2Fc...
Modern games are generally going to be more approachable than old ones. Tastes have changed considerably. In the days when you couldn't pull up a walkthrough in a few seconds, taking days to think of the next step was part of the fun, and just getting permanently stuck at some point was fairly common. Also, letting the player keep going even after they have done something to make the game unwinnable is now considered very uncool. Navigation is much less tedious these days as well, fast travel for example, although the exact mechanics depend on the game.
And that's not mentioning the amount of CPU and RAM available, not only for the game's runtime, but also for tools like I7 (which was used to write Counterfeit Monkey).
For an quicker introduction to modern "interactive fiction", as it's called these days, check out competition entries. https://intfiction.org/c/competitions/7 These are generally written in a shorter amount of time and the results are quicker to play through.
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Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?
Various old skool text adventures:
If you are already experienced with them then "Counterfeit Monkey" takes it to the next level with a great twist based on anagram-like magic:
> Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship.
> Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up.
> Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is blown.
> Your remaining assets: about eight more hours of a national holiday that's spreading the police thin; the most inconvenient damn disguise you've ever worn in your life; and one full-alphabet letter remover.
> Good luck getting off the island.
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl
https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey
If you're new to the genre then "Lost Pig" is a good place to start, though technically it's licence (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0) is not open source.
warzone2100
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Is there any game where you can design your own weapons/vehicles?
It is more an RTS than a 'classical' wargame, but you could do it in Warzone 2100. It is old for now (but it was very fun in 2000s). It could be fun for you today. There is a free and open source version : https://wz2100.net/ .
- Been wanting to get into real time strategy
- [PC][Early 2000's] RTS Tanks game with Isometric Camera View
- Looking for a minimum requirement coOp game
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What is your favourite open source game(s)?
It's free at wz2100.net and it's tiny, mere megabytes.
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So...C&C is one of the only games I can play for the foreseeable future...
There is also Warzone 2100 as a freeware RTS if you want something else to play https://wz2100.net/
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Warzone
I never had any problems running it on mine, but Warzone is a very old game. Are you using the latest version? https://wz2100.net/
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Im looking to try open source games, what are some good ones?
Warzone 2100
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Advice on RTS
https://wz2100.net the best free and open-source rts ever. Optimised apple silicon processors
- Würde mich interessieren, wie weit verbreitet diese DVD im deutschen Haushalt war. Erinnert sich da noch jemand dran?
What are some alternatives?
asyncglk - AsyncGlk: A Typescript Glk library
OpenRA - Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.
extensions - Inform 7 extensions -- some may be ready for public use, others may be barely working experiments. Enjoy!
Mindustry - The automation tower defense RTS
Mudlet - ⚔️ A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD client with scripting in Lua
Zero-K - Open source RTS game running on the Spring engine
if - Interactive Fiction technology: specifications and tests
0ad - Git mirror of the 0 A.D. source code (http://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser)
widelands - Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.
Cataclysm-DDA - Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
endless-sky - Space exploration, trading, and combat game.
wesnoth - An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.